On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 21:12:35 -0700 "Daniel Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> > 4. I am a frequent customer of DriveThruRPG.com, which watermarks PDF > > files to mark legitimate ownership. Would these watermarks pose a > > problem for Linux PDF readers, and are there Linux software packages > > that support cut-and-paste from PDFs to other software. > > I remember doing copy/paste from a linux pdf reader at some point, but > don't remember what app it was. You can copy and paste from any of various PDF viewers in Linux. The best ones are Kpdf and Adobe Reader 7.08 (yes there is a Linux version of the latest Adobe Reader). I use them both, Kpdf for copying and pasting (does better with graphics) and Adobe Reader for one-off printing (faster rendering). Having said that, if the creator of the PDF file set the permissions to prohibit copying, then forget it. None of the Linux PDF viewers can help. However, you *can* open the PDF in certain other apps, save as a raster image, then OCR the raster image. That will get you at least the text, although the results will be far from perfect and formatting will be mostly lost. _______________________________________________ PDXLUG (a Portland Linux user group) mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug & #orlug
